Jose Antonio Vargas

Jose Antonio Vargas is a journalist and the founder of Define American, an immigration-awareness campaign. He’s written for the New Yorker, Rolling Stone and the Washington Post, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre. He is a proud graduate of Mountain View High School and San Francisco State University and lives in New York City. Photo by Gian Paul Lozza for TIME.

In this week’s cover story of TIME, José Antonio Vargas writes about the growing immigration rights movement and the ins and outs of the citizenship process. Vargas himself is an undocumented immigrant who revealed his status …